Quell is a soon-to-be available wearable device that sends electric pulses through skin to counter pain.Quell, a wearable first introduced at CES 2015, has gained a 501(k) approval from the FDA which allows distribution and purchase without the need for prescriptions. The Quell system is the younger brother of Sensus, a prescription-needed anti-pain wearable from the same company NeuroMetrix.Bo...

Genome-search companies vie to be the Google of personalized medicine.In 2005, next-generation sequencing began to change the field of genetics research. Obtaining a person’s entire genome became fast and relatively cheap. Databases of genetic information were growing by the terabyte, and doctors and researchers were in desperate need of a way to efficiently sift through the information for th...

Citymaps enables users to ‘collect’ and share places they love. It will even begin to suggest points of interest based on their use.The days of hand drawn routes and dogeared car maps are long gone. Most people now turn instinctively to their smartphones for directions, and while existing online maps do the job of getting people from A to B quite satisfactorily, the latest version of Citymaps...

The next best thing to headset VR, the Xgamer combines accelerated gaming with a curved screen cinematic experience. Its 10-inch, 1080P, 180 degree screen gives users a greater sense of immersion in the display environment and is made more powerful by a state of the art accelerated video card. Not only visually compelling, its curved shape is naturally ergonomic for the hands with controls plac...

Chinese telecom giant Huawei led international patent filings in 2014, as the total number of patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty reached a record high of 214,500. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, Huawei applied for 3,442 patents, edging out US chipmaker Qualcomm and Chinese competitor ZTE with 2,409 and 2,179 applications, respectively. With...

The highly-anticipated film Racing Extinction (racingextinction.com) made its Colorado debut at the 2015 Boulder International Film Festival (biff1.com). Racing Extinction, directed by Academy Award-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove), is a project of the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) that features an unlikely team of activists and innovators that hatch a bold mission to save endangered speci...

Millennials may have no problem paying for Netflix, Pandora or the most recent video games, but when it comes to news content they are surprisingly thrifty. That’s the result of a report published by The Media Insight Project, a joint research initiative by The American Press Institute and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Based on a survey of 1,046 Americans aged 18-34, the repo...

Magic Leap, the mysterious virtual reality company funded by Google, has today released a first look at its AR games experience with its headset. The video, which was created in collaboration with Weta workshop (the studio behind movies like Lord of The Rings) supposedly shows a game where the user can interact with real-world and virtual objects and impressive graphics.Considering the collabor...

Facebook users are impacted by video ads even before viewing them for a full second, according to a Nielsen study commissioned by the social network’s marketing science team.Facebook explained the motivation behind the study in a Facebook for Business post:Online channels like News Feed changed how people consume content, giving them the power to decide what content (including ads) warrants th...